Terrazzo chips

1. Wipe, find your line, then wash

Clean the bowl and mark where your lip sits. Then lay a thin, even coat of cream over everything below that, right down to where the bowl meets the stem.

Thin. You want a milky glass, not an opaque one — and if it streaks, leave it, because the chips cover more than you would think.

2. Let it go touch-dry

Ten minutes with a drink. Chips painted onto wet cream drag it around with them and turn muddy.

3. The big chips

In blush, paint eight or nine flat-sided shapes about the size of a five-pence piece, turning the glass as you go so they land all the way round. Corners, not curves — think broken tile.

Spread them unevenly. Evenly spaced chips read as a pattern, and terrazzo is meant to look thrown.

4. Fill in between

Smaller chips in deep teal and mustard ochre in the gaps, half the size of the first lot. Work down to the very bottom of the bowl — that curve is the bit everyone forgets.

5. Ink flecks

A dozen or so tiny ink chips, barely bigger than a grain of rice, spread over the whole bowl. This is what stops the thing looking like a sunset.

Fewer than you think. Ink is loud on cream, and the teal is already doing the dark work.

6. Gold band

Fine liner, gold, one steady band around the bowl on your line. Turn the glass, not the brush.